From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 02:14:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06904 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 02:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nwalme.pair.com (nwalme.pair.com [209.68.1.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06889 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 02:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@nwalme.pair.com) Received: (from dima@localhost) by nwalme.pair.com (8.9.0/8.6.12) id FAA23931; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 05:14:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806260914.FAA23931@nwalme.pair.com> X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FReeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UseCanonicalName Question To: bfarina@venture-1.com (Bill Farina) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 05:14:11 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806251926.OAA00427@ns.venture-1.com> from Bill Farina at "Jun 25, 98 02:28:35 pm" From: Dima Dorfman X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There is a line in Apache's httpd.conf file that says; > > #UseCanonicalName on > > Mysteriously, Apache started refusing to boot with an error message saying > that it was unable to get the canonical name. I was a bit flustered, but I > commented out the above line and everything seemed to work fine. Now I'm > noticing that there is an error message showing up in /var/log/messages > saying: > > Jun 25 13:52:55 ns popper[350]: (v2.41beta1) Unable to get canonical name > of client, err= 0 > > Something has changed or become corrupted, but I have no idea what it might > be. I'm guessing that it's a BSD problem since both sendmail and httpd are > having trouble with it. A Canonical name (or CNAME) is a DNS term. In case of Apache, it couldn't look up the value in one of the "ServerName' directives. In case of qpopper, I think it can't reverse-lookup an IP (i'm not sure about this). Hope this helps :) > > Any ideas? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Dima Dorfman (dima@zwb.net) AlternativeNet Server Administrator: inferno.alternativenet.org Microsoft: How long do you want to wait today? FreeBSD Rules! Micro$oft Sucks! http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message